Can you ship your product using a lower price to help me avoid customs and tax fees?

Can you ship your product using a lower price to help me avoid customs and tax fees?

Hi, I am from anoth­er coun­try and I’d like to pur­chase one of your prod­ucts. My coun­try charges exces­sive import duties and tax­es which make your prod­ucts more expen­sive here than your list­ed web­site price.

It would real­ly help me if you would ship my prod­uct with “reduced price export doc­u­men­ta­tion” to save me these costs.

Is it pos­si­ble?

Delivery Parcel

No. There are two rea­sons:

Unfortunately cus­toms agents have access to the Internet. If they choose, as you did, to lookup our price online, and see that our actu­al price is high­er than the “shipped item” val­ue, we get caught fraud­u­lent­ly rep­re­sent­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion for our prod­uct prices — they may pro­hib­it us from serv­ing prod­ucts to oth­er peo­ple in your coun­try.

International ship­ping is very tedious. It takes approx­i­mate­ly 1/2 hour to com­plete export doc­u­men­ta­tion for any inter­na­tion­al ship­ment, the nor­mal way. We sim­ply can­not afford to add cost to pro­duce “false­ly depre­ci­at­ed” doc­u­men­ta­tion to sup­port inter­na­tion­al ship­ments.

Customs poli­cies are cre­at­ed by your gov­ern­ment.

The main prin­ci­ple is with your government’s imposed tax­es and duties that apply to all import­ed goods. This is an explic­it polit­i­cal issue relat­ing to the way your gov­ern­ment gov­erns and tax­es import­ed goods. If you object to these fees, then the polit­i­cal­ly cor­rect and only effec­tive action is to work with your gov­ern­ment lead­ers to reduce tax­es and import fees that apply to all import­ed prod­ucts.